[PD] gem pix_videoDarwin

[Adam Lindsay]

chris clepper said this at Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:38:13 -0600:

>>I looked at the source and guessed about [pix_videodarwin 720 480], and
>>although it created the object and rendered, it was far too pixelated to
>>be showing full resolution. But I'll experiment some more.
>
>i found the flag to set for high_quality and added that to the code. 
>there are several other modes and i will look into adding those as 
>well.

Thanks. So that others don't take this performance hit, would you
consider dedicating a couple commands (messages to the [pix_videoDarwin]
object) for this? I dunno how you're handling this.

>>That would be helpful, as I noticed that S-Video out on my machine has a
>>minimum resolution of 800x600, which causes a bit of a crash.
>
>s-video has a resolution of 640x480, in fact it has to in order to 
>support NTSC (it's actually the _only resolution for NTSC).  the OSX 
>monitor panel doesn't show it by default for some reason, but if you 
>uncheck 'Show modes recommended by display' it will allow 640x480.

I'm actually in PAL-land, but the TV will handle NTSC as well.
What you suggest sounds like it. I'll try it as soon as I can get a turn
on the telly. 

>what sort of crash occurs?  what's the hardware?

Just Pd falling over. Nothing serious.
HW is a PB12", so the NVidia Go 420. 

>>Any chance of putting a titlebar on the non-external display window?
>
>sure, at some point.  that requires an event loop for the window, 
>which could be tricky.  also, another event loop is exactly what 
>pd+GEM does not need at this point.

Right. Good point.
But I'm blown away by the performance right now.

Cheers,
adam

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